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27 Sep 2017 8:19:56am

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This presentation reverts to the past of industry burning away, destroying nature and our connection to it, exploding population supported by mass production, and leaving us as lazy automatons cycling in a constructed rat race. Innovation is required into understanding the formation of thoughts, feelings, and human and other living functions within environments - not distanced from them by industry. I have written about this exact issue in a free book (980 kb pdf) in 'the cloud' at at http://sdrv.ms/10UzytW

The individual needs to know how and why s/he functions, beyond 'getting up to work at the office / factory to make some dough to pay bills and enjoy the footy on Saturday and dinner with the folks on Sunday'. The presenter can take an economic view of units swayed by innovation to alter their natural behavior, but I don't, as we are still looking to define what that natural behavior might be, and how it might bring happiness to the individual.

It all revolves around individuals and their state of knowledge about themselves and the world, for a rational and satisfying worldview in which they have all the connections to nature that might bring happiness. Science needs to be geared towards the individual, and not industry swaying the individual. I don't mind admitting I don't drive, don't use washers, do have a veggie patch, and do preprare all my own food. I am not a peasant, or deprived. I'm 53 and I time trial 4 kilometers in under 15 minutes.

Good luck to the dinosaur view of using nature to burn to support laziness of mind and body, as quite the opposite is required. At some point it will all need to wind down and adjust by individuals steering their own lives, informed by valuable science returning to humans and away from industry. Work on yourself and respect nature as it should be respected. The ABC takes a middle ground in all of this, as they probably should, but their main problem is that these shows are mouthpieces for institutions without any independent analysis or proper criticism. Lazy and fawning.

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